Urban Nature Pictures 4/27

[urbpan]

A young red-tailed hawk with gray squirrel prey.

Comments

[cdozo.livejournal.com]

Nice shot!

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

It's a baby emu! Poor armadillo.

[ndozo.livejournal.com]

by_steph, you are funny!

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[yummykit.livejournal.com]

yom yom yommmmmmm

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I guess those chickens CAN catch rodents! Please tweet more lulz.

[ankhanu.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, fresh leaves :) We're not to budding point here yet :/

I absolutely adore the moss on the branch too!

We don't really have this kind of wildlife in the city here. The region is too suburban/wild for much in the way of "real wildlife" to bother coming in to the city. That said, there's plenty outside the city itself, and it only takes about 5 minutes to get out of town :P

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting comparison. This is in Franklin Park, which is about 4 miles away from Boston Common (where the tall buildings are). FP is the largest city park, and is bordered by 4 other huge green spaces, but also borders a big and dense low income neighborhood. There are coyotes, fishers, and wild turkeys in this park, and white tailed deer in other nearby parks.

We have red-tails and squirrels all the way into the urban center, though.